The government has announced a new £1m fund to expand training programmes for charities so that employees and trustees can improve their digital skills, including developing social media presence and online fundraising

Melissa Hernandez, executive at Propero Partners, discusses the practical applications of artificial intelligence and the use of web-based chatbots by accounting firms to increase engagement with customers

Smart technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), increased use of non-financial data and innovative approaches to recruitment are changing corporate reporting, enabling companies to offer greater transparency and so increase public trust in business, research by EY has found

Workiva provides a checklist of essential features to look for in technologies that can power your own finance transformation to support faster, more accurate financial planning and reporting

The top-20 accounting firm has entered into a strategic testing partnership with Inflo, a specialist in artificial intelligence and machine learning, in order to improve the technical offering for clients

31 October 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency and blockchain, a means of guaranteeing the authenticity of transactions and information stored across different computer systems

A taskforce established by the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has concluded that distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to deliver benefits to financial services and other sectors, but also carries significant risk

PwC has signed up 111 students to a new fully-funded technology and data science degree programme, as part of an initiative to improve social mobility and attract more young people from a broader range of backgrounds into technology based careers at the Big Four firm

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is urging companies to consider cyber threats more closely when implementing internal accounting controls, following a report on nine organisations that fell victim to cyber frauds with combined losses of some $100m (£76m)

Sarah Perrin ACA examines whether the complexity of cryptocurrencies poses a significant enough challenge to auditors to require the creation of new standards

As much as £20bn of savings could be sitting in over a million so-called ‘lost pension pots’ where savers have lost touch with their providers according to analysis from the Association of British Insurers (ABI), which says this underlines the need for the government’s proposed pensions dashboard

The Treasury has announced it is to retain the £50 note - which has come under criticism over the role of high value notes in illicit transactions - but is to issue a new, more secure polymer version

A panel of experts is to investigate the subject of competition in the digital market, a field which is dominated by a small number of large companies, and make recommendations on future government policy

Cloud accounting software provider FreeAgent has launched a new set of licences specifically for accountants with clients that bank with the Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest, enabling them to add their new clients to the service for free

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken steps via an emergency court order to halt a planned initial coin offering (ICO) by a company called Blockvest, which backers falsely claimed was approved by the US regulator